ADIRONDACK ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

NEWSLETTER VOLUME 20 NUMBER 1 SUMMER 2011

IN THIS ISSUE New Reservation Policy page 2 Special Events page 2 Tours pages 3–9 White Pine Camp Tours page 4 Announcements page 10 Membership Form page 11

AARCH ANNUAL MEETING: Seagle Music Colony Saturday, June 11

Join us at the Seagle Music Colony in Schroon Lake on Saturday, June 11, for our 21st annual meeting. In addition to Two of the dozens of unique cottages in Thousand Islands Park, conducting AARCH business we will honor part of our new two-day tour, Beyond the Blue Line: Exploring the Thousand Islands our 10-year members and AARCH founder See page 3 for details. and long time board member, Howard Kirschenbaum, who is leaving the board after TOURS, WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL EVENTS 20 years of service. Howie has received an Excellence in Preservation Award from the Preservation League of State. Please take note of a few changes in the highlight them to further encourage your schedule this year. First is our new participation. We will also learn about the history of Seagle reservation policy, which is described in There are 29 individual day-long events on Colony and hear a short vocal recital. Our detail on page 2. You’ll see it is essentially the calendar this season, including several guest speaker will be Gladys Montgomery, a lottery where all requests will be placed in that haven’t been offered for a few years, author of the soon to be released book, An a hopper then drawn randomly following such as The Legacy of William and Alice Elegant Wilderness: and Grand the early reservation deadline. We have Miner and Otis Mountain Camps. We’ve Lodges of the Adirondacks 1855-1935. developed this system in response to also introduced some new sites to explore various comments we’ve received over the that will take you to all corners of the The meeting begins at 1 p.m. and ends around years and we hope you will agree that it is Adirondacks, including Gloversville, 3:30 p.m. and is free to members and guests. fair and manageable. Holland Patent, Lyon Mountain, Keene As with all of our events, unless otherwise Valley, and Crown Point; plus we will visit noted, reservations are required. Second, we’ve moved the listing of special events from the back page to page 2. These the Fourth Lake area for a new look at fundraising events are vitally important to children’s camps. sustaining AARCH and our work and we Another new item on the calendar is an overnight trip to the Thousand Islands. This NOTICE: NEW is a great opportunity to learn about a fascinating area just beyond the RESERVATION POLICY Adirondacks. Please review the new policy and We look forward to seeing you this season procedure as outlined on page 2. and hope that you will join us for some of these wonderful events as we continue to Deadline for early reservation is explore this vast and remarkable region. Seagle Theater noon, Monday, May 16. (Courtesy Seagle Colony)

RESERVATIONS

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW RESERVATION POLICY For the first time this year we will be taking reservations by telephone, mail, email, fax, and in person from the time that the events schedule is distributed to our members in April until noon, Monday May 16, 2011. At that time, the early AARCH member reservation window will close. All reservations will then be placed into a common hopper and randomly drawn. Requests will be honored in the ordered they are pulled. People will be notified within several days of the drawing as to which events they have reservations for. Reservations received after May 16 at noon, from members and the general public, will be honored in the order they are received. AARCH tours, workshops, and special events are led by scholars, professionals, and knowledgeable volunteers. They are enjoyable learning experiences and help raise funds to support our preservation mission. In planning your outing with us, please keep in mind the following: • Advance reservation is required for all events unless otherwise noted. Attendance is limited and events are filled by the process described above. Making reservations while the early AARCH member reservation window is open is highly recommended. If a tour fills up, we recommend placing your name on our waiting list, as periodically we get cancellations. Once we receive notice of a cancellation, we notify those on the waiting list in the order that their reservations were received. • Prompt payment is appreciated. Mail your check to AARCH, 1745 Main Street, Keeseville, NY 12944. Refunds will be given to those unable to attend an event only if we are notified at least two business days prior to the event date. • We cannot accept more than four reservations per person per tour. • Out of respect for property owners who are generous enough to allow us to tour their properties, please leave all pets at home. • Some tours require a fair amount of walking or exertion. Be sure you are physically able to participate in the outing as described. For more information call AARCH at: (518) 834-9328. • Unless otherwise noted, you are required to bring your own lunch and beverage. • Our events are held rain or shine. Dress for the variable weather conditions by wearing or bringing proper attire.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Camp Carolina (1913), Lake Placid Ticonderoga Country Club Garnet Hill Lodge, North River BENEFIT EVENT AT GOLF TOURNAMENT TO 2011 AARCH AWARDS CAMP CAROLINA, BENEFIT AARCH, LUNCHEON, GARNET HILL LAKE PLACID TICONDEROGA COUNTRY LODGE, NORTH RIVER Saturday, July 30 CLUB Monday, September 26

Our 2011 benefit event will be held on Monday, August 29 This year we are pleased to present our Lake Placid at Camp Carolina, built in 1913 Join us for our third annual golf annual AARCH Awards at a celebratory for Caesar Cone (1859-1917) of Blowing Tournament. This year’s event will be held luncheon at Garnet Hill Lodge, North Rock, North Carolina. Cone was the at Ticonderoga Country Club. This scenic River. While enjoying lunch we will founder and president of Proximity course is set in the historic Lord Howe recognize several exemplary preservation Manufacturing Company, which operated Valley and features an open yet challenging and stewardship projects from across our three denim mills around Greensboro. The layout. The day will include a buffet lunch; region. Please join us as we honor the day will include food and refreshments and a round of golf with cart; and the accomplishments and commitment of our an opportunity to tour the grounds and opportunity to win great prizes. The format awardees. The luncheon begins at 12 noon camp. The event begins at 3 p.m. and ends will be a four man scramble with a shot gun and ends around 3 p.m. The luncheon is at 6 p.m. The cost is $100 per person. start. The cost is $100 per person. $40 per person.

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Little Red (1884), Saranac Lake Valcour Lighthouse (1874) Gate Lodge (1892), Camp Santanoni

SARANAC LAKE: VALCOUR ISLAND PRESERVING PIONEER HEALTH RESORT Monday, June 20 CAMP SANTANONI Wednesday, June 15 The waters surrounding Valcour Island in Wednesday, June 22 Lake Champlain were the scene of the Co-sponsored by Historic Saranac Lake, Santanoni was built for Robert and Anna Battle of Valcour, an important naval battle this tour will be led by Mary Hotaling, its Pruyn of Albany beginning in 1892. The during the Revolutionary War. Here, in former director. View many of the estate eventually included 12,900 acres October 1776, a small colonial fleet under buildings and sites that made Saranac Lake and nearly four-dozen buildings. Led by the command of Benedict Arnold engaged America’s “Pioneer Health Resort.” The AARCH staff, the tour will include stops the British fleet. During the 19th century, village’s late 19th- and early 20th-century at the Gate Lodge, Santanoni’s 200-acre the island was briefly home to a fledgling history is closely tied to the treatment for farm, and the Main Camp on Newcomb “free-love” colony and, in 1874, a tuberculosis developed by Dr. Edward L. Lake where we’ll see the ongoing lighthouse was built on it. The island is Trudeau. The tour will include the Trudeau restoration of the camp complex and learn now part of the Forest Preserve and the Institute, where we will see Little Red, the first hand about the conservation planning lighthouse is being restored by the Clinton first cure cottage; the former Trudeau and restoration work. County Historical Association. We will Sanatorium; Saranac Laboratory; the Cure Cottage Museum; and the Béla Bartók travel by boat to Valcour Island for a four- The round-trip walk is 9.8 miles on a Cottage. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and mile interpretive hike with AARCH’s gently sloping carriage road. The tour ends at 3 p.m. Be prepared for uphill Steven Engelhart and naturalist David begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The walking. The fee is $35 for AARCH and Thomas-Train. The tour begins at 10 a.m. fee is $20 for AARCH members and $30 HSL members and $45 for non-members. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $40 for for non-members. A limited number of Tour attendees will also receive a copy of AARCH and CCHA members and $50 for seats are available on a horse-drawn Cure Cottages by Philip L. Gallos. non-members. wagon for an additional $20 fee.

BEYOND THE BLUE LINE: EXPLORING THE THOUSAND ISLANDS Friday, June 24– Saturday, June 25 Registration deadline: June 3

Beginning this summer, we will offer a series of multi-day tours that will go beyond the to explore the history and building types that define the various regions of New York. We kick off this semi-annual event with a two-day tour of the Thousand Islands, located in the St. Lawrence Seaway, along New York’s northern border. Known during the Gilded Age for grand island castles and fast boats, it was the destination for many of society’s most well-known and influential families.

The tour will begin with an afternoon walking tour of Thousand Islands Park on Wellesley Island, led by Robert Charron, AIA. This will be followed by dinner at the historic Wellesley Hotel. The cottage community of Thousand Islands Park is one of the most intact remnants of the turn-of-the-century summer lifestyle that defined the region. Boldt Castle, Alexandria Bay

Saturday will include a guided tour of the Antique Boat Museum, set on 4.5 acres of riverfront in Clayton; a boat tour of the river; and a visit to the famed Boldt Castle on Heart Island, built by George Boldt, owner of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Construction ceased following the death of George’s wife in 1904 and the unfinished castle sat idle for 73 years before a multi-million dollar restoration was begun by current owners, the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority.

The fee for the tour is $300 per person for double occupancy. Single occupancy is an additional $85. This includes an overnight stay at the Riveredge Resort in downtown Alexandria Bay, three meals and admission to all sites. Gratuity included.

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Camp Irondequoit (1904) and Onetah recreational pastimes. Beginning on the southern end of the valley, in St. Huberts at Lodge (1924). The tour begins at 10 a.m. Putnam Camp we will work our way north, and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $40 for stopping at private homes and camps that AARCH members and $50 for illustrate the valley’s history, ending in non- members. Keene at the Mountain House. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. The fee is $30 and is restricted to current members who are at the Sponsor level and above.

WHITE PINE CAMP TOURS The 1926 Summer White House of President Calvin Coolidge Dannemora Prison, 1869 (Clinton Prison at Through the generosity of its Dannemora, Clinton Co. Historical Society, 1987) owners, AARCH is again hosting tours of this private Great Camp INSIDE DANNEMORA PRISON at Paul Smiths Wednesday, June 29

Registration Deadline: May 31 House in Granville with slate siding and roof Saturdays, July 2 to September 3

10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The Clinton Correctional Facility at SLATE VALLEY Dannemora, originally built in 1845, is the Adults $10 · Children $5 Thursday, July 7 third oldest and the largest prison in New Reservations are not required York State. This unique opportunity will Running approximately 24 miles along the take us inside this maximum-security border of New York and Vermont, the Slate Be sure to see the restoration of the prison where we will visit a cellblock Valley has been a source of slate since Alpine Garden, one of the earliest modeled on the “Auburn System,” the 1848, and is the only place in the world works of horticulturist Fred Heutte. Church of the Good Thief built entirely by where such a wide variety of colors can be inmates, the North Yard, workshops, and found. Over the past 160 years, this the former Dannemora State Hospital. industry, which relied heavily on immigrant The history of the prison is fascinating and labor, has seen success, downturn, and its architecture most dramatic. The tour finally a resurgence that continues to the begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m. The fee present. On this tour we will explore the is $35 for AARCH members and $45 for history of slate quarrying at the Slate non-members. Participants must be 18 or Valley Museum, tour the town of Granville older. Note: Cancellations made after looking at examples of the way slate is June 1 cannot be refunded. used, and visit one of the nearly 30 quarries in operation today. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $35 for AARCH members and $45 for

Onetah Lodge (Roaten, 1924), Piseco Lake non-members. PISECO LAKE Monday, June 27 AARCH MATTERS

In the 1890s a group of friends and AARCH Matters is a monthly investors established the Piseco Company e-newsletter sent on the first of each and Irondequoit Club Inn on over 11,000 month that provides information acres of forest and lakeshore. The inn, an The Mountain House (1890), Keene about preservation issues from around (Courtesy The Mountain House website) 1850s addition to the residence of Gene the region, upcoming AARCH events,

Adams, was erected in 1892. Club cottages NEW! and updates on our building project. If were added nearby and some members KEENE VALLEY you would like to receive AARCH chose to build their own residences along Wednesday, July 6 Matters, please visit our website at: the lake’s eastern shore. In addition to the www.aarch.org and sign up from our The Town of Keene, occupying a fertile, club’s buildings, many other independent homepage. If you have a submission, mountainous stretch along the Ausable camps were built. We will visit three of please email it to Ellen Ryan at: River valley, has long been a destination for them built in the early part of the 20th [email protected]. farming, industrial endeavors and century including: the Irish Camp (c. 1915),

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Penfield Homestead (1828, 1873), Ironville Lyon Mountain Mining and Railroad Museum Formerly the Lyon Mountain train station (1903) NEW! ON THE TRAIL OF THE MONITOR: CROWN POINT NEW! LYON MOUNTAIN AND THE CIVIL WAR Friday, July 15 Saturday, July 9 McIntyre blast furnace (1854), Tahawus Once referred to as “the town that refused to die”, Lyon Mountain has faced This tour is a slice of time. It covers the TAHAWUS AND THE overwhelming hurdles in the past half Civil War period from 1861 to 1865 which DESERTED VILLAGE OF century. The open pit mining at Lyon includes the mining and smelting of the iron ADIRONDAC Mountain was known for producing high from nearby Hammondville that went into quality iron ore, so preferred that it was building our first iron war ship, the USS Tuesday, July 12 used in the cables of the Golden Gate Monitor. A series of stops along this driving Look at more than a century of mining in bridge. The departure of Republic Steel in tour will outline the first few steps in the the Town of Newcomb courtesy of the 1967 stripped the community of its largest long chain of processing needed to build an Open Space Institute. Led by New York employer. Despite this, the town has iron ship. This is an important story because State Archeologist Dave Staley; NYS marched forth, celebrating its history the battle between the Union’s Monitor and DEC Historic Preservation Officer Chuck through a mining museum, located in the the Confederate’s Merrimack at Hampton Vandrei; and Paul Hai, an educator at restored 1903 train station. This tour will Rhodes, Virginia, was an early turning SUNY ESF’s Adirondack Ecological include a visit to the museum, as well as a point in the war, one that changed naval Center. We will see the 1854 McIntyre walking tour of the town. Many of the warfare world wide. The tour begins at 10 Furnace, the remains of the village of company homes, sold into private a.m. and will end at 4 p.m. The fee is $30 Adirondac, the Adirondack Iron and Steel ownership years ago, have been restored. for AARCH, Essex County Historical Company operations, and the 20th- We’ll also look at the remains of the Society and Penfield Museum members, century mining operation at Tahawus. The mining operation. The tour begins at 10 and $40 for non-members. McIntyre Furnace is an important early a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $30 for

industrial site that has been documented AARCH members and $40 for

by the Historic American Engineering non-members.

Record. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and

ends at 3 p.m. The fee is $30 for AARCH

members and $40 for non-members.

MT. MCGREGOR Monday, July 18 Registration Deadline: July 5

Mt. McGregor is the home to the General Ulysses S. Grant Cottage and Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility. The former is the cottage where General Grant spent his final months completing his memoirs before succumbing to throat cancer in 1885. Just over the fence is a compound of buildings that sprawls along the mountaintop and was constructed in 1912 as a tuberculosis hospital by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to care for its afflicted employees. By the 1940s it had become a veteran’s camp, and then a center for people with developmental disabilities. After a period of vacancy, the site reopened in 1976 as a medium security prison. The tour will be led by Wilton Town historian, Jeannine Woutersz, and will include a visit to the Wilton Heritage Museum. The tour begins Wilton Heritage Society Museum at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $40 for AARCH and Wilton Heritage Originally Methodist Episcopal Church, 1871 Society members and $50 for non-members.

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RUSTIC ARCHITECTURE OF BIG MOOSE Tuesday, July 19

This tour will look at the distinctive rustic architecture on Big Moose Lake, including the work of Henry Covey, his son Earl, and the Martin family. The tour will include visits to the Big Moose Chapel and Manse, The Waldheim, Covewood Lodge, Brown Gables, and two camps on Crag Point. What makes many of these buildings unusual is their vertical half-log construction, the solution to not having a saw mill available. These sites comprise a portion of the clubs and camps that were built to offer guest accommodations, meals, and guide services to early travelers. The tour, led by AARCH’s Steven Engelhart, begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $40 for AARCH members and $50 for non-members. The Waldheim (1904), Big Moose Lake

Huntington Wildlife Forest, Newcomb Young Life Saranac Village Queen of the May (c. 1880), Malone Formerly Prospect Point (1903) THE PAINTED LADIES HUNTINGTON CAMP WILDLIFE FOREST RUSTIC ARCHITECTURE OF OF MALONE UPPER SARANAC LAKE Friday, July 29 Thursday, July 21 Saturday, July 23 As a gateway community to the Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington were Adirondack region, the city of Malone passionate about the arts, nature, and Led by Mary Hotaling, this tour will visit prospered during the late 19th century. animals, and were no strangers to two turn-of-the-century camps and a People came to the area for the affordable altruism. Their philanthropy created or chapel on Upper Saranac Lake that land and made their fortunes growing supported numerous parks, libraries, and display the work of local architects hops and harvesting lumber. Steady museums. Their largest regional William L. Coulter (1865-1907), William wealth, in addition to access to the contribution came between 1932 and 1939 Distin (1884-1970) and Scopes and railroad, led to the construction of dozens when they donated 15,000 acres Feustmann. The tour will include Camp of buildings representing the Victorian era surrounding their W.W. Durant-designed, Pinebrook (1898), built for Levi P. of architecture. Wonderful examples of Arbutus Lake estate in Newcomb, to Morton by Coulter, though a devastating elaborately adorned and painted Queen Syracuse University to create the fire led to new construction. Prospect Anne and Italianate homes line the streets, Huntington Wildlife Forest. The property Point (1903), Coulter’s largest camp many meticulously maintained. The day was turned over to what is now the SUNY design, was commissioned by copper will begin with a visit to the Franklin College of Environmental Science and magnate Adolph Lewisohn and is now County Historical and Museum Society, Forestry and is the site of its Adirondack home to Young Life Saranac Village. followed by a walking tour of an historic Ecological Center. Mary will give a slide talk there about the life and work of William L. Coulter, the neighborhood including several interiors. We will tour the camp, and learn about subject of her thesis. Lastly, we’ll travel The tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 Durant’s original design, the Huntingtons, by boat to Chapel Island. The original p.m. The fee is $30 for AARCH and and the use by the college of the preserve chapel here was built in 1890, but burned FCHMS members and $40 for for ecological research. The tour begins at in 1956. It was rebuilt and reopened for non-members. 10 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m. The fee is $35 services in 1958. The tour begins at 10 for AARCH and $45 for non-members. a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $40 for AARCH members and $50 for non-members.

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Camp Pine Knot (1877), Raquette Lake Holland Patent railroad station (1890) Stone Arch Bridge (1843), Keeseville (courtesy RW&O Railroad website) RAQUETTE LAKE’S LONG KEESEVILLE AND AUSABLE POINT AND ENVIRONS NEW! HOLLAND PATENT CHASM Wednesday, August 3 Tuesday, August 9 Friday, August 5 This boat and walking tour will include A southern stop on the Adirondack This driving and walking tour will explore visits to , St. William’s Division of the New York Central railroad more than a dozen bridges that cross the on Long Point, and portions of The that carried passengers from Utica through Ausable River. Bridge historian Richard Antlers, a former hotel. William West the park to Montreal, architecturally Sanders Allen has said "There are few Durant built Pine Knot beginning in the Holland Patent is worlds away from the watercourses in America, comparable in late 1870s and it was here that he first mountainous interior to the north. Settled length to the Ausable, over which so developed the features and details we now in the late 18th century, this community many early bridge types remain." Among associate with Adirondack rustic features a rare collection of stone Greek them are an 1843 stone arch bridge, the architecture. Saratoga Springs architect R. Revival buildings. A morning walking 1857 Jay covered bridge, an 1888 Newton Brezee, a friend of Durant’s, tour will circle the public square and the pedestrian suspension bridge, a variety of designed The Antlers in 1886. It Stone Churches National Register metal truss bridges, several stonefaced originally operated as a hotel and cottage District. The tour will also include a visit reinforced concrete bridges, and the 222- resort. Durant was also responsible for to the restored train depot, the burying foot steel arch bridge that spans Ausable building Catholic St. William’s in 1890 to grounds and the Wethersfield School. The Chasm. All of these were placed on the provide services for his employees. The tour begins at 10 a.m., includes a one-mile National Register in 1999. AARCH’s tour begins at 10 a.m., includes a one-mile walk along a wooded trail, and ends at Steven Engelhart, author of Crossing the walk along a wooded trail, and ends at 3 p.m. The fee is $35 for AARCH River: Historic Bridges of the Ausable 4 p.m. The fee is $45 for AARCH members and $45 for non-members. River, will lead the tour. The tour begins members and $55 for non-members. at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $30 for AARCH members and $40 for

non-members.

THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM AND ALICE MINER Friday, August 12

William H. Miner grew up in rural Chazy and made his fortune by inventing, patenting, and manufacturing railroad equipment. In 1903, he and his wife, Alice T. Miner, returned to the family’s Chazy farm and began more than three decades of innovative philanthropic work in the region. In this outing, we will explore two of the Miners’ most significant and lasting achievements—Heart’s Delight Farm and the Alice T. Miner Colonial Museum. The farm was an organizational and technological marvel in its day with 300 buildings on 15,000 acres and 800 employees. In the 20th century, the farm evolved into the Miner Institute, which focuses on pioneering agricultural research and livestock breeding. The museum was established in 1924 in a three- story stone mansion, built to house Alice’s collection of art and decorative objects. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The Alice T. Miner Museum, Chazy fee is $35 for AARCH members and $40 for non-members.

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NEW! EARLY INDUSTRY AND ARCHITECTURE IN GLOVERSVILLE Saturday, August 13 The city of Gloversville, unsurprisingly, developed around the glove industry, relying on the tanneries that were so abundant in the southern Adirondacks to provide leather. With the departure of this important industry, the city is now working to build a new identity. Fulton County Chamber of Commerce President Wally Hart will lead this walking tour of downtown Gloversville, exploring a stunning collection of turn-of-the-century commercial buildings in various stages of rehabilitation and learning about the city’s rich history. We’ll also visit the ornate Carnegie Library and the Glove Theater, formerly one of three theaters in town owned by the wealthy Schine family. The fee is $30 for AARCH and Chamber members and $40 for non-members. Restored late 19th-century city block in Gloversville

Fuller House (c. 1870), Lake George Scragwood (c. 1880), Willsboro Point Waterfront at Adirondack Woodcraft Camps (Courtesy AWC website) SPIRITUAL RETREATS ON THE CLARKS NEW! CHILDREN’S CAMPS OF LAKE GEORGE OF WILLSBORO POINT Thursday, August 18 THE FOURTH LAKE REGION Saturday, August 20 Tuesday, August 23 Join us on the eastern shore of Lake During the late 19th century Orrin Clark, Rooted in the progressive movement of George as we visit the Wiawaka Holiday and his sons Solomon and Lewis, the late 19th and early 20th century, House, Paulist Fathers’ at St. Mary’s of operated a successful quarry on Ligonier children’s summer camps reached their the Lake, Mountainside Library and Point in Willsboro, providing “bluestone” peak of development in the 1920s and Cleverdale Lakeside Chapel. Wiawaka for a number of regional buildings, as well 30s. Whether promoting equal was established in 1903 by founder Mary as the Champlain Canal and the Brooklyn opportunity for girls, experiential learning Wiltse Fuller as a retreat for women Bridge. In addition to the quarry the opportunities in an outdoor setting, or factory workers. It includes the 1870s Clarks ran a dairy farm and a shipbuilding serving as recreational boarding schools, Fuller House, once part of the business. This tour will visit the quarry these camps were often a child’s first Crosbyside Hotel; the recently restored remains; the Clarks’ homestead, Old Elm; introduction to the world of nature and Wakonda Lodge, once a part of Amitola, the quarry master’s house, Scragwood; outdoor recreation. This tour will explore Spencer and Katrina Trask’s retreat for and the surrounding grounds. These the architecture and history of two current artists; as well as other housing and buildings have remained nearly untouched children’s camps. The YMCA’s Camp support structures. Built in the 1860s, St. since the Clarks’ occupancy, providing a Gorham was originally Darts’ Hotel and Mary’s stands prominently on a hillside rare view of life at the turn of the century. Adirondack Woodcraft Camps has been overlooking the lake. We will visit the You will also be able to explore the welcoming children since 1925. We will chapel, dining hall, and dormitory. The family’s history through extensive also visit the sites of two important former tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends around 3 documents meticulously organized in a camps: Moss Lake Camp for Girls and p.m. The fee is $35 for AARCH and private collection. The tour begins at 10 Camp Eagle Cove. Wiawaka members and $45 for a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $35 for non-members. AARCH and $45 for non-members. The tour will be led by Hallie Bond, curator of the Adirondack Museum’s 2003 exhibit, “A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks,” and co-author of the book of the same title. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $40 for AARCH members and $50 for non- members. Lunch is included.

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Forrence Orchards (19th-century barn), Peru Kenjockety (1911), Westport Camp Up-There (1901) on Otis Mountain

200 YEARS OF FARMING WESTPORT’S DUDLEY ROAD OTIS MOUNTAIN CAMPS Thursday, August 25 Wednesday, September 7 Thursday, September 8

Farming has been important to the This outing will explore the extraordinary Led by author Margaret Bartley, we will Champlain Valley for more than two architecture, historic sites, and landscapes explore several camps perched on the centuries. On this southern Clinton found along Dudley Road in Westport. It mountainsides overlooking the Boquet County tour, we will explore a series of will include: Camp Dudley, the oldest River Valley near Elizabethtown. In Adirondack Life homesteads and farms from the early 19th boys’ summer camp in the United States her article, "With Sky for century to the present day, which will in continuous operation (founded 1885); a Front Yard," she wrote, "Like seven collectively show how farming has Barber Point Lighthouse (1873); reclusive sisters, the camps on Otis and changed over time. We’ll begin the day at Kenjockety, a Prairie-style camp complex Iron Mountains have remained hidden the Babbie Rural and Farm Learning with extensive gardens; Skenewood, a from all but their closest neighbors for Museum, then visit the Keese Homestead 1904 brick colonial revival residence; and more than a century." Wear your hiking (c. 1795) built by Quaker settlers in a an 1816 one-bedroom, stone schoolhouse. shoes and be prepared for an uphill trek, community called The Union. Other stops The tour will be led by former AARCH as we visit five of these remote camps include Remillard Dairy Farm, family- board member Bill Johnston, and begins built for and designed by women. We will owned for three generations; Forrence at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is also explore the Otis Farmhouse and Otis Orchards, one of the largest McIntosh $40 for AARCH members and $50 for Bridge. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and orchards in the state; and finally Clover non-members. ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $40 for AARCH members and $50 for non-members. Mead Farm, where we’ll see how organic cheese is made and sample their exceptional line of farm-fresh products. PRESERVING Led by AARCH’s Steven Engelhart, the CAMP SANTANONI tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $35 for AARCH and $45 for Tuesday, September 27 non-members. See page 3 for description

INSIDE DANNEMORA PRISON

Wednesday, August 31

Registration Deadline: July 27 See page 4 for description.

Note: Cancellations made after June 1 cannot be refunded.

THE WORLD OF ARTO MONACO Saturday, September 10

Born in AuSable Forks in 1913, Arto Monaco began drawing at an early age. He attended Pratt Institute in New York City, and later worked for MGM studios in Hollywood. During World War II, he designed and constructed “Annadorf,” a faux German village in the hills north of Los Angeles where American soldiers experienced, prior to going to war, the cultural ambience and the dangers of a German town. After the war, he created Santa’s Workshop on the slopes of Whiteface Mountain not far from his studio in Upper Jay. This pioneering theme park opened in 1947. During the early 1950s, Arto built the Land of Makebelieve in Upper Jay. Everything was scaled for children who were encouraged to explore the park as their parents relaxed nearby. Join us on this behind-the-scenes tour of Santa’s Workshop and the Land of Makebelieve, starting with a slide presentation by Bob Reiss, The castle at the Land of Makebelieve son of Santa’s Workshop founder Julian Reiss. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is (1954) $40 for AARCH members and $50 for non-members. Lunch is included.

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2011 ADIRONDACK ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE AWARDS Call for nominations

The AARCH Awards program annually recognizes exemplary historic preservation work throughout the Adirondack Park. We seek examples of sensitive restoration, rehabilitation, and demonstrated long- term stewardship.

Help us spread the word about the good work going on in our region by nominating a project from your community. Nominations are accepted year round. To be considered for a 2011 AARCH Award, nominations must be submitted by June 30, 2011.

2010 AARCH Awards: Bearhurst, Speculator; Camp Carolina, Lake Placid; Mountain Meadows, Paradox; The N House, Pottersville; The Uplands, Keene Valley; Wenonah Lodge, Upper Saranac Lake Bearhurst (1894), Speculator

RUSTIC STUDY TOUR WITH SUNY CORTLAND

After several successful multi-day tours that brought people from all over the country to the Adirondacks to share in the history and rustic traditions of the region, this year AARCH will join the State University of New York at Cortland to offer a trip for their alumni. Cortland’s own, The Antlers on Raquette Lake, will be the base for the group, with day trips to White Pine Camp, Uncas, Big Moose Lake, Hemlock Ledge (right), the Adirondack Museum and more. Cortland has been the longtime steward of The Antlers, as well as Camp Pine Knot, and we’re proud to be their partner.

This exciting tour will take place September 11-15 and is reserved for Cortland alumni, so if you or someone you know calls Cortland their alma mater, please consider joining us. For more information or to register, contact Rhonda Jacobs, Assistant Director, SUNY Cortland Outdoor Education Program at [email protected] or 607-753-5485. Hemlock Ledge (1907), Tupper Lake

NEW PUBLICATIONS Coming soon…

An Elegant Wilderness: Great Camps and Adirondack Style: Great Camps Grand Lodges of the Adirondacks and Rustic Lodges 1855-1935 Written by Lynn Woods and Jane By Gladys Montgomery Mackintosh, Introduction by Dr. Foreword by Caroline Welsh Howard Kirschenbaum, Foreword Architecture of Leisure series by Laura Rice Hardcover, 272 pages Universe, Hardcover, 224 pages June 2011 September 2011

Published by Acanthus Press in Developed in cooperation with collaboration with The Adirondack AARCH, Adirondack Style Museum, An Elegant Wilderness recounts includes more than thirty-five camps defined by the rustic the story of the private retreats of the Gilded Age industrial rich who opulence of the Great Camps. These grand structures echo the traveled north from New York City to experience wilderness. It greatness of their past and enhance the natural beauty of the combines architectural, social, and cultural history with biography, and region. With informative text by two Adirondack experts and evocative black-and-white archival photographs of rustic homes, idyllic breathtaking photography of the camps and their surroundings, lakes, and recreational pastimes, most of which are published here for this is a celebration of these regional treasures. the first time. f-Stop Fitzgerald is a nationally known photographer whose The author of five books and the founding editor of Berkshire Living work has appeared in more than 100 periodicals. Home + Garden, Gladys Montgomery has penned more than 200 Richard McCaffrey is currently staff photographer for The magazine features about architecture, design, antiques, and historic Providence Phoenix. buildings, which have appeared in regional, national, and international Lynn Woods is an award-winning writer who has contributed publications. In 2007, she transposed this expertise into a real estate to a variety of magazines and newspapers. career with The Kinderhook Group, Chatham, New York. She lives in Jane Mackintosh is a longtime resident of the Adirondacks West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. and regular contributor to Adirondack Life.

10 CORRECTION

We would like to apologize for omitting these names from our Winter Newsletter. The following individuals and organizations should have been acknowledged as supporters of BOARD OF DIRECTORS AARCH in 2010. Duncan Cameron Paul Smiths George Canon Newcomb H. Stuart de Camp Thendara Kimmey Decker Saranac Lake Judy Chaves & Craig Heindel Marcella Sembrich Memorial Assoc. Richard Frost Plattsburgh Marvin Connor, Historian Jonathan & Emilie McBride Howard Kirschenbaum Raquette Lake Northampton United Methodist Church Howard Lowe Plattsburgh Albert DeSalvo Nils Luderowski Keene John H. Demming, Jr. Patricia Orr Patricia Marsh Upper Saranac Lake Dr. Robert H. Dyson, Jr. Edward D. Petty Joedda McClain Inlet John H. Flagg James Schloten John McDonald Ticonderoga Clinton & Barbara George Robin Smith Willem Monster, Northampton Mary Page F. Hickey James Turman Derek Muirden Plattsburgh Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Hoopes Hazel Van Aernam Laura Rice, Saranac Lake Teresa Kennedy Wiawaka Holiday House Julia Tansor Plattsburgh

Rick Weerts Port Kent Lake Pleasant/Speculator Historical Society Janice Woodbury Kattskill Bay STAFF Steven Engelhart Executive Director This publication and much of AARCH’s good work is Ellen Ryan Community Outreach Director All photographs used in this publication, made possible with funds Susan Arena Program Director from the New York State Bonnie DeGolyer Administrative Assistant unless otherwise noted, are the property of Adirondack Architectural Heritage Council on the Arts, a State

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11 SPECIAL AWARD

HOWARD KIRSCHENBAUM WINS STATEWIDE RECOGNITION We are delighted to announce that founding AARCH board president Howie Kirschenbaum has been honored for his work in the Adirondack region by receiving an Excellence in Historic Preservation Award from the Preservation League of New York State. The League’s statewide awards program honors notable achievements in retaining, promoting and reusing the state’s irreplaceable architectural heritage.

The timing of this award couldn’t be better, as Howie is about to step down from the AARCH board after more than 20 years of service. The award recognizes his substantial contributions over more than 30 years to historic preservation in the Adirondack region. In nominating Howie for this award AARCH Executive Director Steven Engelhart wrote: “Through his leadership, personal initiatives, partnerships with others, and broad educational work, many nationally important historic buildings have been saved and, perhaps more importantly, public awareness about the importance of the region’s architecture and its preservation has been significantly elevated. In addition to his major role saving Great Camps like Sagamore, Uncas, White Pine, and Santanoni, he was a founder and first board president of AARCH, and a tireless advocate for the region’s architecture and its preservation.”

Preservation League President Jay DiLorenzo added “Howie’s name is synonymous with preservation in the Adirondacks. In addition to his work with the famed Great Camps, his leadership of the not-for-profit Adirondack Architectural Heritage has helped make it a statewide model of an effective preservation advocacy group. An outspoken champion of Camp Santanoni, including years of work alongside the Preservation League, his book about the camp’s significance remains an important resource. We are delighted to present this award to Dr. Kirschenbaum and to give him the statewide recognition he deserves.”

The award will be presented at the Preservation League’s Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony in New York City on Thursday, May 12th at the historic New York Yacht Club, 37 West 44th Street. For more information on the award program visit www.preservenys.org. Howie Kirschenbaum at White Pine Camp

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